Drinking lemon/vanilla/almond extract? Safe?

Would drinking the above extracts be safe? It should be, as they're used in food. They're cheap too; lemon extract is $1/ounce and is 84% alcohol. Yet I've never heard of alcoholics drinking the stuff before.

I don't plan on drinking any of them, as they taste horrible, but my friends are interested in taking shots and I don't think it's safe.

Any drink with more than 50% alcohol is dangerous. And since the vanilla taste is probably synthetic the stuff will probably cause cancer as well (when you use regularly). And it will taste horrendous.

When added to coke, the fizzing ceased. I'm guessing this is because the equilibrium point shifted. The solution also looked cloudy, which is a little weird. I took a sip and it tasted like lemonaide. They each had 1/2 a shot of lemon extract mixed with the coke and we all survived.

I don't think I would recommend anyone doing this, but lemon extract can be purchased without ID, for what it's worth.

Any drink with more than 50% alcohol is dangerous. And since the vanilla taste is probably synthetic the stuff will probably cause cancer as well (when you use regularly). And it will taste horrendous.

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Everything Synthentic causes cancer??

Well I guesse I might as well Start Smoking and using Splenda and drinking Diet coke, everything else man made is going to kill me too.

I used to have a brother-in-law who would do stuff like this. He'd drink vanilla extract, Nyquil, anything that wasn't nailed down. He died at the age of 33, after having been warned that it would happen if he didn't quit. He left a wife and a beautiful young daughter behind.